The paper identifies and evaluates barriers to industrial energy efficiency through the investigation of 48 … enterprises and energy policy-makers. Firstly, economic and information barriers are perceived as the major obstacles to the … adoption of energy-efficient technologies, whilst behavioural barriers do not seem to affect enterprises very much. Nonetheless …

energy-efficient than larger enterprises. Several studies investigated the barriers to the diffusion of technologies and … perception of such barriers by SMEs. In this multiple case-study, we have investigated 20 Primary Metal manufacturing SMEs in … Northern Italy. Economic and information barriers are perceived as the major issues. Interestingly, firm's size, innovativeness …